{"product_id":"the-sixties-big-ideas-small-books-9780312427214","title":"The Sixties: Big Ideas, Small Books","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA brilliant, alternative take on sixties swinging London, Jenny Diski offers radical reconsiderations of the social, political, and personal meaning of that turbulent era. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWhat was Jenny Diski doing in the sixties? A lot: dropping out, taking drugs, buying clothes, having sex, demonstrating, and spending time in mental hospitals. Now, as Diski herself turns sixty years old, she examines what has been lost in the purple haze of nostalgia and selective memory of that era, what endures, and what has always been the same. From the vantage point of London, she takes stock of the Sexual Revolution, the fashion, the drug culture, and the psychiatric movements and education systems of the day. What she discovers is that the ideas of the sixties often paved the way for their antithesis, and that by confusing liberation and libertarianism, a new kind of radicalism would take over both in the UK and America. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWitty, provocative, and gorgeously written, Jenny Diski promises to feed your head with new insights about everything that was, and \u003ci\u003eis\u003c\/i\u003e, the sixties.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780312427214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.16h x 4.70w x 0.45d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/15\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2009 pg. 162\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2009 pg. 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2009 pg. 130\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/30\/2009 pg. 7\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublisher's Weekly Annex\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/03\/2009\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jenny Diski","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36635881406620,"sku":"9780312427214","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_f82c2192-120a-4ebd-8733-1541b5577c4b.jpg?v=1603840783","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-sixties-big-ideas-small-books-9780312427214","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}